Monday, August 31, 2015

More than 20 countries
from six continents met recently at the sixth Clean Energy Ministerial, or CEM, in Mérida, Mexico and agreed on
the importance of supporting the rapid growth of global clean
energy economy, in particular, energy efficiency and a diversity of renewable
resources such as solar, wind, hydro, sustainable biomass, and
geothermal.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Conventional propeller-type tidal turbines can be used in waters at least 30 meters deep. The THAWT (Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine) technology, by contrast, is designed for deployment in shallower, lower velocity, tidal waters.

Monday, August 24, 2015

An experimental solar-powered aircraft Solar
Impulse 2 has large fixed wing covered from tip to tip with 17,000 photovoltaic
cells providing 340kW of electric power. The aircraft is powered by
taking off in the daylight and rising to an altitude of 9,000m as the sun
charges its batteries.

Friday, August 21, 2015

Historically upfront costs were the greatest
barrier to energy efficiency upgrades. The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)
program in California created the ability to use energy cost savings as a
source of cash.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

A team of researchers from the Institute of the Environment
at the University of California analyzed data for the last 105 years and found
that high-elevation California forests fires have seldom happened in the past.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Last month, the U.K. stopped the Green
Deal, an ambitious energy efficiency program that never took off the way
the government had hoped. The U.K.’s government wanted to build a
public-private partnership that would give homeowners £10,000 to support energy efficiency improvements, with no upfront costs.

Friday, August 14, 2015

According to European Commissioner for International
Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica,
EU is the biggest donor in the world, collectively providing over €58 billion
in Official Development Assistance (ODA) in 2014, and it is expecting to mobilise €100
billion through blending by 2020.

Friday, August 7, 2015

Both
companies invest heavily in renewable energy to cut costs. Facebook
says that its new data center in Fort Worth, Texas, like the Iowa one, will
run on 100 percent renewable energy, powered by wind turbines only 90 miles
away.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Earlier
this week the 193 Member States of the United Nations reached a consensus on ambitious new agenda which would end poverty by 2030 and
universally promote shared economic prosperity, social development and
environmental protection. The new sustainable development agenda builds on the success of the Millennium Development Goals, adopted in 2000, which helped more than 700 million
people escape poverty, slash hunger, disease, gender inequality, and access to
water and sanitation by 2015.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The new targets in the Clean Power Plan demand carbon
emissions from the power sector be slashed 32 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030
– that is 2% more than in the original proposal that was released for
consultation a year ago. Washington has promised to slash greenhouse gas
emissions economy wide by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025, and will
do so partly by focusing on the 40 per cent of US carbon-dioxide emissions that
come from power stations.

Monday, August 3, 2015

It is happened on July 25 due to a sunny conditions in southern Germany (where
most of the country’s solar panels reside), and storms across northern Europe
(most of Germany’s wind turbines have been installed in the north). On that
day wind and solar generated 40.65 gigawatts (GW) of power.